Black Notebook

AvMichel Tremblay

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Engelska, 2016

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In the heart of the Latin Quarter, meeting place of marginal characters of all sorts, Céline Poulin works the night shift at a cheap and popular restaurant, Le Sélect, serving hamburger platters and spaghetti and meatballs to student misfits, transvestites, hookers and queens from the MainMontreal’s disreputable Boulevard Saint-Laurent. Hanging out with a theatre company in her off hours, Céline sees opening before her a world where it is not only possible, but even desirable to pretend. When the director offers her a role in The Trojan Women, the die is cast.The Black Notebook is Céline’s diary, her account of her trials and tribulations, her expectations and her cruel disappointments, because this young waitress at Le Sélect has her own dramatic story to tell, even if only to herself: Céline is a midget.From the theatre of Euripides to the theatre of Montreal’s Main, Michel Tremblayour Balzaccreates and gives voice to some astonishing new characters in this first of a new series of novels. For the characters of The Black Notebook, the first in this trilogy, life is a comedy that barely conceals the cruel and pitiless tragedy of the everyday. With a transcendent eloquence and compassion, Michel Tremblay celebrates how it is possible for Céline to embrace her difference and to flourishdespite that difference, or perhaps, because of it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-16
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781772011647
Förlag:Talonbooks
Översättare:Sheila Fischman
Serie:Notebook Series

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Dramatik inom Skönlitteratur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
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Michel TremblayOne of the most produced and the most prominent playwrights in the history of Canadian theatre, Michel Tremblay has received countless prestigious honours and accolades. His dramatic, literary and autobiographical works have long enjoyed remarkable international popularity, including translations of his plays that have achieved huge success in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East.Awards and Recognition*Prix du Grand (2009) La Traversée de la ville (Leméac Editeur Inc.)Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix (2006)Globe and Mail Top 100 Books (2003) Birth of a BookwormDora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (2000) For the Pleasure of Seeing Her AgainChalmers Awards (1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1989, 2000)Governor General’s Performing Arts Award (1999)Molson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (1994)Louis-Hémon Prize (1994)Montreal Book Fair Grand Public Prize (1994)Banff Centre National Award (1992)Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France (1991)Chevalier of the Order of Quebec (1990)San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Festival Long-Standing Public Service Award (1989)CBC Anik Prize (1988)Athanase-David Lifetime Achievement Prize (1988)Quebec-Paris Prize (1985)Chevalier of Arts and Letters of France (1984).Sheila FischmanBorn in Saskatchewan, Sheila Fischman is a member of the Order of Canada and has a doctorate from the University of Waterloo.A two-time Governor General’s Award winner, Fischman has translated from French to English more than a hundred novels by such prominent Quebec writers as Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Anne Hébert, François Gravel, Marie-Claire Blais and Roch Carrier.In 2008, Fischman was awarded the prestigious Molson Prize for her outstanding contributions to Canadian literature.